"Tom Hargrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By the way, if you have a router installed then you don't need a > firewall, not even Windows firewall because a properly configured > hardware router is the best firewall you can buy. Why? Because the > bad guys can't reach through the box to your machine. Plus, the > firewall is away from your machine. With a software firewall, the > bad guys are already inside your machine and you are depending on > the firewall to keep them from going further.
True, but "defense in depth" i.e. multiple layers is never a bad thing, unless you have two layers that are conflicting with each other (e.g. two different software firewalls active on the same machine). I have a router and I also have Windows firewall enabled. Allan -- 1983 300D 1966 230
